The number of acts of urban violence committed in 2007 in France was published discreetly by the Interior Ministry. It totals 93,016, including 37, 359 cars burned, or 102 per day!Le Salon Beige via Gallia Watch.

“It doesn’t matter a damn what the Koran says or whether the novel is offensive to Muslims or not. The very need for such apologias and the very fear felt by Random House condemn the violent principles of the gangsters they’re appeasing. No one defended Dan Brown’s massive bestseller The Da Vinci Code by saying, “Oh, Dan was trying to build bridges to the Christian community.” The Da Vinci Code spends its nearly five hundred pages trashing the central beliefs of the Christian community. But for all the hysteria in intellectual circles over fundamentalist Christians, no one had to cower before them or make mealy-mouthed excuses.”

COPENHAGEN – Osama is a businessman who sees terrorism as a profit center, selling terrorism-themed T-shirts, caps and ballpoint pens. Abdul, a convert to Islam, acts as if he cannot kill enough people, or make bombs big enough. Ali, a Pakistani, has won a competition for the honor of avenging the cartoons published in Denmark that disparaged Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.

Despite the threat they seem to present, the four men have so far eluded the Danish police – not because they run such a sophisticated operation, but because they are the principal characters in a situation comedy, “The Terror Cell.”

The show, about a bunch of losers in a gang that can’t shoot straight, is scheduled to make its debut on Danish television next year. Its creator, principal writer and star is Omar Marzouk, a Muslim and one of Denmark’s best-known stand-up comics.

“There’s a lot of interest, but at the same time it’s Danish, there are the cartoons,” said Mr. Marzouk, 35, munching on a club sandwich (no bacon, he tells the waitress). “It’s not about being blasphemous, though; it’s about things that make both sides have a laugh. That’s more difficult than being provocative.” […]

He chides the Danes for avoiding hard questions about immigration – Denmark has some of Europe’s toughest anti-immigration laws – and the country’s role in the Middle East, where it has troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and where the cartoons make the Danes targets.

“We are in Iraq and Afghanistan, and we had the cartoons, yet we haven’t discussed it,” he said. “Nobody asks, what if there is an explosion, what if there is a bomb in Copenhagen?”

Mr. Marzouk answers his own question: the far-right Danish People’s Party “will rocket in the polls.” […]

Does he ever feel threatened? Mr. Marzouk is stoic. Anticipating attacks, he had a special death threat feature on his Web site, until he recently updated the site, by which visitors could choose among eight ways of having him assassinated, like by firing squad, by blowing up his car or by beheading.

[T]he HRC’s investigation of the Western Standard article was completed to the tune of 500,000 dollars in taxpayers’ money, and 100,000 dollars to Ezra and his magazine. Had the complaint been filed in a Canadian civil court, the loser would have been required to pay Ezra’s attorney’s fees. But in HRC cases, the complainant doesn’t even have to pay for his own attorney’s fees. The investigation is conducted at taxpayer expense. […]

Currently, there are fourteen Canadian Human Rights Commissions, employing 1000 people, with a budget of 200 million dollars annually. Together, they function as a parallel court system, often at direct odds with laws administered through the Canadian civil and criminal courts. While the establishment of the Human Rights Commissions and Tribunals may have started out with good intentions, over time they have become so extreme that they regularly side with radical Islamists. In a crusade to stamp out offensive language, they stifle free speech. […]

At first blush, the dismissal of ECMC’s complaint against the Western Standard might seem like a win for free speech rights. But it’s not quite the good news it appears to be. As Ezra himself so astutely pointed out, it merely means that in the process of government censorship, the Alberta Human Rights Commission approved of his article. And that should send a chill down everyone’s spine. Canada’s Human Rights Gestapo

[Islam Online] Chairman Yusuf Al-Qaradawi states, “Muslim jurists have held differing opinions concerning the punishment for this abominable practice. Should it be the same as the punishment for fornication, or should both the active and passive participants be put to death? While such punishments may seem cruel, they have been suggested to maintain the purity of the Islamic society and to keep it clean of perverted elements.” Islam Online’s “Headless Homosexuals”

Muslims Blame and Jews Remember
Biblical legend tells us that a long time ago (1500 to 1200 B.C.) a certain Pharaoh of Egypt did a terrible thing to all the firstborn of the Hebrews: he had them thrown into the Nile. Whether one accepts the Exodus story as really happening or not (the written version as we know it was most likely composed around 450 B.C.), it is indisputable that Jews did not take it personally. They never went back to Egypt to kill Egyptians for payback nor do you ever hear Jews urging each other to kill Egyptians for long ago enslaving the Israelites.

Jews have lived continuously in Egypt since 650 B.C. In 1922 there were almost 80,000 Jews in Egypt living peacefully as they have always done. Today there are fewer than a hundred [Wiki].

587-586 B.C. the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar invades Jerusalem and destroys the city and the First Temple [Westmont College]. Babylon is located in what we today call Iraq. You will never hear a Jew urging his fellow Jews to kill Iraqis wherever we find them for destroying the Holy City and the Second Temple and carrying off the Jewish people into captivity.

Jews have lived continuously in the area of present-day Iraq since 586 B.C. Iraqi Jews constitute one of the world’s oldest and most historically significant Jewish communities [Wiki]. In 1948, there were approximately 150,000 Jews in Iraq, living peacefully as they have always done. In 2003, there were 100 left.

In 70 A.D. the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and the Second Temple. Tens of thousands of Jews were crucified, many nailed in ridiculous postures to amuse the Roman soldiers. You will never hear a Jew urging his fellow Jews to kill Romans wherever we find them.

Jews have lived continuously in Italy for over 2000 years and despite the persecutions and expulsions and the Holocaust a small community of around 45,000 Jews remains in Italy today [Wiki].

When Jews recall these events during their holy days, it is to remember that bad things happened but that we persevered and we endured. No one is urged to find a gentile and kill, enslave or convert him.

I Am The Lord Thy God
This Commandment recognized the sovereignty of the Almighty. Rejection of it was seen as a refusal to acknowledge God’s authority. Punishment was death by stoning
Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods But Me. Punishment was death by stoning
Thou Shalt Not Take The Name Of The Lord Thy God In Vain. Punishment was death by stoning
Remember The Sabbath Day To Keep It Holy. Punishment was death by stoning
Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother. Punishment was death by strangulation
Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder. Punishment was death by decapitation
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery. Punishment was death by strangulation
Thou Shalt Not Steal. Punishment was death by strangulation
Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness Against Thy Neighbor. Punishment was death by stoning
Thou Shalt Not Covet. Punishment was death by strangulation

Fortunately for Jews, these barbaric and primitive punishments were made impossible to impose over 2,000 years ago by Talmudic authorities.

Planck’s Constant,
A Muslim Reaction to Fitna – Threats

Muslims have had 1400 years to reform and renounce the barbaric portions of the Quran. For example, Judaism, 2000 years ago, had already discarded the vengeful notion of “an eye for an eye….” In fact, Rabbinical Authorities at that time had already called the Death Penalty a barbaric practise not worthy of civilized peoples [The Worst Parts Of Judaism/Christianity]. How did Mohammed miss that sentiment?

The problem with the Quran is that it copied the barbaric portions of the Old Testament, primitive sentiments from 3,000 B.C. but ignored the moderating influence of Jewish analyses and debate from 1 A.D. Christians did not ignore those influences and indeed, the Sermon on the Mount is consistent with Jewish re-evaluation at that time of the Ten Commandments and of harsh Mosaic laws. When compared with Islam, Judaism and Christianity might as well be the same religion.

While no Jew living today actually believes it is proper to strangle a daughter for dishonoring her parents there is no shortage of Muslims living today believing the exact opposite. If you do a google search of “Muslim honor killing” you will get thousands of hits. Search google for “jewish honor killing” and you will get perhaps 14 listings but almost all of them with “I never heard of a Jewish honor killing,” that is to say, they are not reports of an actual crime but merely a recitation of the Universal Truth that it is a rare event indeed.

So, yes I ignore the barbarities in the Old Testament precisely because the whole of Judaism ignores those barbarities. I condemn the Quran precisely because Muslims living today not only refuse to ignore the barbarities in the Quran but ask that they be followed by the non-Muslim world as well.

The Actions of a Few

Since 9/11 there have been over 10,000 attacks by a “few” misguided extremists, so pardon me if I blame Islam for the actions of tens of thousands.

Islamists kill more people in one year than in all 356 years of the Spanish Inquisition combined.

More civilians were killed by Muslim extremists in two hours on September 11th than in the 26 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.

So yes, Ahmed, throw in my face the piddling death count of hundreds of years of the Spanish Inquisition or the thousands killed in decades of Irish Christian fighting, however the Spanish inquisition ended as did “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, but unfortunately Islam will be with us forever unless the West bans the practice of that faux religion or Muslims reform their religion.

I will stop blaming Islam for the savage and barbaric attacks by Muslims when dictionaries redefine ‘few’ to mean ‘more than ten thousand’.

Here is a tiny List of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 2 Months committed by just a “few” Muslims.